“How the World Works: The Interconnections between
Globalization, Energy Policy, Economics, the Environment, and Politics…and
Everything Else in Between”

Monday, February 11, 2013

7 p.m. Young Auditorium

Andrew Leonard currently writes the hybrid blog/column for Salon.com
“How the World Works” — a venue for exploring the interconnections between
globalization, energy policy, economics, the environment, and politics. Leonard
is the author of Bots: Origin of a New Species, described in a New
York Times review as a “playful social history of the Internet.” His work
has appeared in Rolling Stone, Wired, Newsweek, The New York Times
Book Review, The Nation, The Far Eastern Economic Review, the San
Francisco Chronicle and numerous other publications. Before becoming a journalist
he studied Mandarin Chinese for ten years and lived and traveled extensively in
East Asia.